Postojna Cave steps up effort to protect its 57 baby dragons

The Postojna Cave welcomed new olm offspring last year after witnessing the blind cave salamander (Proteus anguinus) reproduce "in the wild" for the first time in 2016. Now it has launched a special project to take care of what are a total of 57 baby dragons.

Last year, the Postojna Cave vivarium welcomed 36 baby olms, snake-like and almost translucent blind animals endemic to the Dinaric karst, which is only their second batch in history. The animals can live up to 120 years.

"It was a 13-year-old inspecting the olm vivarium on a school trip who first spotted a new egg,"...